Posts Tagged ‘mauritius’

Air Mauritius has inked a five-year technology and services deal with IBM for Cloud and Analytics technologies delivered as services to fuel its long-term growth plans. The Mauritian national airline, the fourth largest in Africa, has been connecting the...

Check Point Software Technologies has released the October 2015 statistics for its Threat Cloud World Cyber Threat Map, which found that Tanzania was the most attacked country in the world that month, when it comes to cybercrime. Six other African countries...

Making an investment in Africa is considered to be tricky business, with political instability and economic uncertainty two hurdles that can trip up the unwary. However, Mauritius – Africa’s shining beacon of social and economic stability tops several...

Search giant Google has rolled out an update to its Google Play Movies & TV app. This recent update includes support for over 40 new countries – including Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritius, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal and Zambia....

Comztek in Mauritius is working closely with vendor partner Cisco to ensure that customers throughout the region will benefit from superior service and quality solutions. Built off of the back of a historically solid and mutually beneficial business...

During Microsoft vice president of education, Anthony Salcito’s, visit to Tunisia, Microsoft announced the official launch of its Student Advantage programme on the continent. In an intimate meeting with students from various regions across the country,...

For those living on less than US$2/day, entry-level broadband costs an average of 40% of monthly income and in many countries this figure exceeds 80% or 100%. As a result, billions cannot afford to get online, entrenching the digital divide and constraining...

This week, four schools and eight teachers from across sub-Saharan Africa were nominated amongst the world’s best as part of Microsoft’s 2014 class of Mentor Schools and the Inaugural Class of Expert Educators. These exclusive one year programmes...

Microsoft has announced the availability of Office 365 in nine new territories across the African continent. The entire suite of Office 365 packages is now also available in Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mauritius, Rwanda, Senegal and...

India and Mauritius’ Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL), a public sector enterprise, announced in a statement on Monday that it was launching a 3G service later this year. New company chairman and MD Ashok Kumar Garg and new director Kuldip Singh are...

Multinational technology and consulting corporation IBM, has announced the opening of a new office on the island nation of Mauritius. According to a press statement released on Wednesday, the new office is meant to “strengthen IBM’s ability to provide...

The Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION2), Kenya’s fourth submarine cable, will become fully operational in April this year, the local telecommunications ministry revealed on Thursday. The LION2 cable is a 3000 km line extending from Nyali, via the island...

BlackBerry App World is now available in nine additional African countries. Customers in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Lesotho can now discover, download and enjoy a wide range of...

Helios Towers Africa – one of the continent’s leading telecommunications tower operators – is set to invest US$100 million in Tanzania’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector for five years. Helios Towers Africa, which was...

With the implementation and go-live of its new R25 million Avid Airspeed server for digital ingest and playout, Mauritius Broadcast Corporation (MBC) has completed Phase II of its digitisation strategy -achieving a completely tapeless environment from...

CrimsonLogic, a provider of eGovernment solutions and services, has been appointed to implement an eJudiciary programme in Mauritius. This will improve court administration with aims to boost judicial transparency and efficiency, promote the legal...